UN Experts Call on India to Repeal Legislation Discriminating against Religious Minorities  (Religion News Service)

Pope Francis' Memorial of Saint John XXIII on 60th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (The Vatican)

+You: Building Hope through Service
Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford will join leaders from the Anti-Defamation League and Interfaith America for a multifaith discussion to discuss ways we can build bridges in communities across the country.

Habitat for Humanity
October 24 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT | Online

Launching “What about us”? New eBook on Global Religious Inequalities
The book explores how to make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics.

Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development
October 26 | 1:00 p.m. BST | University of Sussex; Zoom; YouTube Livestream

"Together with URI" - Indigenous Voices
This event will focus on the wisdom of Indigenous traditions as well as the economic, environmental, political, and social challenges facing our global community.

United Religions Initiative
October 27 | 2:00 p.m. UTC | Online

Broadening the Aperture: International Religious Freedom, National Security and Peacebuilding
This event will discuss why promoting freedom of religion or belief around the world is central to advancing U.S. national security.

United States Institute of Peace
October 27 | 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT | U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, DC

Ukrainian Religious Actors and Organizations after Russia’s Invasion
This event presented the findings, analysis, and recommendations of a new policy brief on Ukraine’s religious context, religious responses to the Russian invasion, and Ukrainian religious contributions to peacebuilding.

Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy
September 21 | Online

Remarks by the High Representative at the UNITAR event on ‘Peace, Education & Dialogue’
This event invited diplomats, religious groups, and youth leaders to discuss the intersections between peace and education and the interdependence of peace and dialogue.

United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
September 26 | New York, NY

Scholars, government and intergovernmental leaders, civil society activists, and religious leadership addressed the role of religion in peacebuilding efforts at both the national and global levels.

International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young 
University
October 2 - 4 | Brigham Young University

This virtual panel discussion explored how religion and gender affect politics and policy in West Africa.

Council on Foreign Relations
October 11 | Online

In 2021-2022, the Religion and Inclusive Societies Program at the United States Institute of Peace convened a working group on U.S. international religious freedom and peacebuilding. This report summarizes the group’s discussions and recommendations for promoting international religious freedom as a key part of U.S. national security.

(United States Institute of Peace)

‘What About Us?’: Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities

This forthcoming eBook is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalized to be recognized and their inequalities, religious or otherwise, redressed. It also discusses the efforts of civil society, governments, multilateral actors, and scholars to promote freedom of religion or belief whatever shape they take.

(Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development)

COVID-19 Project Shifts in Pace and Scope

As we enter into a new phase of the pandemic, one that possesses less of an “emergency” status, the scope of the Religious Responses to COVID-19 project will move towards examining the long-term, more over-arching impacts of religion on COVID-19. As announced by their transition newsletter, highlights going forward will be released quarterly or on a case-by-case basis, but the resource repository will remain available for open access as the partners regularly maintain it.